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Re: Jquery slide show and keyboard accessibility

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From: Nancy Johnson
Date: Feb 3, 2010 10:06AM

This looks like a great one to watch for the future as it only works
in the latest browsers. We still have to support IE6 and IE7. The
other thing I forgot to mention is this slide show automatically
rotates although it does have a pause button and you can manually skip
to a particular slide

Nancy

On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 11:18 AM, Al Sparber < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> From: "Christian Heilmann" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
>> There is the YUI carousel which uses ARIA and is used by Yahoo:
>> http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/examples/carousel/carousel-ariaplugin.html
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> That seems quite inaccessible to keyboard users. If I'm a normal, typical,
> blue collar keyboard user, I sees the widget. I wants to use the widget. I
> see the little controls in its header. But alas, I cannot tab into them.
>
> Tabbing brings to the images inside the widget. But I can only access the
> first one. Pshaw.
>
> I start to think, but then remember that great book I read in the early
> years of the web, "Don't Make Me Think".
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> So, I leave.
>
> Unless that's an unfinished project, the only way it would meet any
> reasonable accessibility goals is if the user were forced to read a help
> sheet.
>
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> Al Sparber - PVII
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